mallotus

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A genus of plants of the natural order Euphorbiaceæ, tribe Crotonæ, and subtribe Acalypheæ, characterized by the oblong parallel anther-cells and the numerous (rarely less than fifteen) stamens.
• noun In ichthyology (Cuvier, 1829), a genus of fishes of the family Argentinidæ, formerly placed in Salmonidæ, of which the male has a broad longitudinal villous or fleecy band of scales differentiated from the rest: the caplins. The type is Mallotus villosus, the caplin. See cut under caplin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Zoöl.) A genus of small Arctic fishes. One American species, the capelin (Mallotus villosus), is extensively used as bait for cod.

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• noun capelins